I like them all ...

Very nice set Christian and thanks for taking the time posting a little more information too (as Lou suggested).

Excellent, love the colors.

Wow, beautiful. Reminds me of the German biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel drawings.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kuns ... _der_Natur

-JW:

Very nice, all excellent.

Chuong,

Thanks for the link. I actually have that already. Very helpful too. I've translated many sections of it.

Regards,
-JW:

Ichthyophthirius, I read in 2014 Peter was using a Imaging Source DMK 72BUC02 (1/2.5 inch Micron CMOS sensor (MT9P031), 2,592×1,944 (5 MP), up to 6 fps ... do you happen to know what monochrome camera Peter is using now? Just thought you might know.

Nope, the shaft wasn't marred whatsoever. Polyvars are build like a tank. From what I've read they were very high quality scopes. I'm quite lucky that all the prisms are in excellent condition, all the objectives, filters, cubes, Nomarski etc. Looks like the mirror survived falling off too and didn'...

... got that puppy off.





-JW:

No

lothman wrote:could you try to lift it off with two small crowbars (coffee spoons).

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that. I'm going to fabricate something like this tomorrow. Hopefully I have the concept correctly.



-JW:

presuming that there is something not working with the diverging mirror. Why pull the Knob off when it looks as if you could access the mirror by undoing the lighting tube access panel at the rear. Just a suggestion as i have no experience on a Polyvar MET. Thanks for the suggestion. The mirror can...

I thought I'd ask before breaking something. I need to remove a knob from my Polyvar MET. It's about 4.1275 cm in diameter and it has a slight edge on the backside to grip. I removed the set screw so that's not an issue. Do they make a wheel puller for something like this? It rotates a diverging mir...

... has many fungus too.

Thanks very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. I just didn't see the link at the bottom.